Trust the Man
Fox Searchlight Pictures | Release Date: August 18, 2006 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
43
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Mixed or average reviews based on 30 Critic Reviews
Positive:
6
Mixed:
20
Negative:
4
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
80
The Hollywood ReporterMichael Rechtshaffen
A smart, sharply observed, highly affable look at contemporary relationships that finally injects a little life in the stagnating genre. Read full review
67
Christian Science MonitorPeter Rainer
If a movie that uses the word "relationship" 7,000 times puts your teeth on edge, stay away. Read full review
63
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Its strength is its humor, which is half-"Seinfeld" and half-"Sex in the City." There's a reason why those shows ran for only 30 minutes each - it's difficult to sustain comedic momentum for longer, as becomes apparent here. Read full review
63
New York PostLou Lumenick
A better than adequate date movie. Read full review
63
TV Guide MagazineKen Fox
The cast, however, is great -- Crudup and Duchovny in particular share a fun chemistry that's just toilet-obsessed enough to be absolutely believable. Read full review
63
Miami HeraldConnie Ogle
The film makes coupling look less like bliss and more like an exhausting series of skirmishes that can send one party scurrying into infidelity or out the door in search of something better. Read full review
60
EmpireLiz Beardsworth
Freundlich's intelligent, very funny take on male-female relationships manages the not inconsiderable feat of being both jaded and appealingly fresh. Read full review
50
VarietyJohn Anderson
For those who appreciate the Woody Allen view of New York but would prefer fewer neurotics, Trust the Man provides a loving take on bourgeois Manhattan contentment that's usually only found in episodes of "Will & Grace." Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneJessica Reaves
Trust the Man could easily carry the following subtitle: "Men Who Behave Like Petulant, Spoiled Children and the Women Who Decide It's Easier to Love Them As-Is Than To Try to Turn Them Into Grownups." Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn Hornaday
Trust the Man quickly begins to feel hopelessly derivative of other, better movies. Read full review
50
USA TodayClaudia Puig
Trust-- and the genre itself -- needs to dump the stale formula and embrace reality and reinvention. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesCarina Chocano
The actors gamely keep up their spirits, but the male characters are too one-dimensional and the female characters too bizarrely divorced from reality to be at all engaging. Read full review
50
Chicago ReaderJ.R. Jones
It wasn't so bad, aside from the god-awful ending; at the very least Freundlich manages to come up with funnier jokes than the ossified one-liners decorating Allen's recent movies. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJack Mathews
Offers a passably entertaining bridge between empty-headed summer fare and fall awards hunting. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleRuthe Stein
Superficially entertaining romantic romp. Read full review
50
Philadelphia InquirerSteven Rea
Does the world really need another movie about a married guy wandering blindly into an affair, or the married gal who can't decide whether to remain faithful or fool around? Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Stephen Cole
A botched adult romantic comedy that strands its leading player, and its audience, in a wearying, sitcom-slight battle of the sexes. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleToddy Burton
A relationship dramedy wields little power without an emotional punch. And when the theatrical (literally) climax attempts bold emotionality, one can’t help but wince. Read full review
42
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
Trust The Man presents itself as a funny, insightful Manhattan relationship comedy in Woody Allen mode, but morphs into the phoniest of Hollywood rom-coms. Read full review
42
Entertainment WeeklyLisa Schwarzbaum
Can these banal relationships between undifferentiated lovelies be saved? Read full review
42
Seattle Post-IntelligencerWilliam Arnold
The cast tries hard and a sprinkling of laughs results, but the project is defeated by a concept that is not very novel, a script that is not especially witty, direction that is neither sharp nor insightful and one-note characters that are simply not very interesting. Read full review
42
Baltimore SunChris Kaltenbach
It's possible that a smart, insightful, sharp-edged comedy could have been written around these characters, but Trust The Man isn't it. Read full review
42
Portland OregonianM. E. Russell
Has some good laughs courtesy of its cast -- but they're basically papering over a script that's masquerading as urbane and trenchant, when it's really self-involved and didactic and more than a little foolish. Read full review
40
L.A. WeeklyElla Taylor
Emerges a weakling comedy of manners. Read full review
40
The New York TimesManohla Dargis
Ms. Moore is nicely lighted, but she too is poorly served by Mr. Freundlich's unfunny, unfocused screenplay, which basically stitches together a series of short scenes of four people whining in various combinations. Read full review
40
Wall Street JournalJoanne Kaufman
Does not bring a single fresh, inventive idea to the table.
38
PremiereEthan Alter
Trust the Man mainly feels like the work of a New Yorker who hasn't left his trendy neighborhood in ten years. Read full review
38
Charlotte ObserverLawrence Toppman
"Man" is like a sour, half-formed version of a TV sitcom full of dislikable, disconnected characters. Read full review
25
Boston GlobeWesley Morris
This is a movie that's built around characters the audience is bound to find more insufferable than anyone does in the movie itself. Read full review
20
Village VoiceRobert Wilonsky
Writer-director Bart Freundlich (Moore's husband) has nothing to say and nowhere to go with this material, except to the most contrived ending this side of a "Will & Grace" episode. Read full review
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